Window-shade support.



No. 705,595. Patented July 29, I902.

- F. RPMEASE WINDOW SHADE SUPPORT.

(Apphcat on filed S pt 80 1901) UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK R. MEASE, OFFR'EEPORT, ILLINOIS.

WIN DOW-SHADE SU PPO RT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of "Letters Patent No; 705,595, dated'July. 29, 1902.

Application filed September 1901. Serial No. '7'7|108- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, FRANK R. MEAsE, a citi zen of the United States, residing at Freeport, in the county of Stephenson and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Window-Shade Supports, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to construct a window-shade support which will permit of the shade being raisedand lowered bodily in vertical guideways and of such construction that it may be secured to the window casing or frame.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of my improved windowshade support. Fig. 2 is a transverse section. Fig. 3 is an isometrical representation of a section of the movable frame for supporting the shade. Fig. 4 is an isometrical representation of the removable cap supporting a'roller over which the weight-cord passes. Fig. 5 is an isometrical representation of the extension to the movable frame.

A tubular shell 1 has a guideway 2 extending nearly its entire length. This tubular shell has openings, within which are located brackets 3, one near each end of the shell. These brackets are secured to the windowcasing 4 or frame 5, thereby supporting the shell in a manner to permit it to have a limited oscillatory movement. Within the open upper end of the shell is located a cap 6, supporting a grooved roller 7, and a cord 8, passing over this roller, has a weight 9 secured thereto.

Aframe is composed of the two sections 10 and 11, and each section has guides 12 extending along one side and fitted to slide in the guideways 2. The two sections of the frame are joined by the rod 13,which permits the sections to be adjustable to fit windows varying in width. Within the lower portion of each section of the frames is located an extension 14, having anotch l5 inits upper end and a projection 16 at its lower end. A projection 17 extends from the lower end of each of the sections of the frame. A dog 18 has a piv otal connection with the section, and a spring 19 holds the dog in the notch 15 of the exten sion when the parts are in the position shown at Fig. 1. The lower end of this extension has a guide 20, fitted to slide in the guideway 2.

When the parts are in the position shown at Fig. 1, the weight 9 connected to the cord 8 and the cord conneoted to the frame, the frame will be held at" the upper end of the window, and the curtain supported by the frame can be raised to exposeor lowered to shade the full window. By means of the projection 16 the frame can be pulled down until the extension rests on the window-frame, and by releasing the dog from its connection with the extension the frame can be drawn farther down, so as to. exposemore of the up per portion of the window.

I claim as my invention- 1. A window-shade support comprising two vertical guideways, tubular supports for the guideways, a frame formed with guides, a weight located within each tubular support, a roller for each tubular support, a connection between the weights and frame passing over the rollers and extensions for the frame having a movable connectiontherewith.

2. A window-shade support comprising two vertical guideways, tubular supports for the FRANK B. MEASE.

Witnesses:

F. E. SERFAS-S, C. S. SERFASS. 

